Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act

Marginal note:Storage of information

• 21 (1) The Regulator shall have responsibility for the storage and curatorship, in a facility in the Province, of

  • (a) all petroleum-related geophysical and geological records and reports, reports respecting wells and materials recovered from wells in the offshore area and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, drill cuttings, fluid samples, hydrocarbon samples and cores recovered from those wells; and

  • (b) all records and reports involving geophysical, geological or geotechnical data, data on physical environmental conditions, environmental effects monitoring data or renewable energy resource data — including data on wind, waves and currents — all environmental studies and all geological and geotechnical samples, to the extent that those records and reports, studies and samples relate to offshore renewable energy.

• Marginal note:Regulator to furnish samples to Ministers

  (2) The Regulator shall, at the request of the Federal Minister or the Provincial Minister,

  • (a) furnish that Minister with a sample of any material referred to in subsection (1), or

  • (b) where it is not possible to produce a sample of such material, provide that Minister with all or a portion of such material, subject to it being returned to the facility referred to in subsection (1),

  if the material is to be permanently retained at the facility referred to in subsection (1).